It feels like you are insisting that F1 should be free of criticism?

Criticism is fine, I do it myself plenty. You naysayers want to turn F1 into something it never was.

As a sport, I think F1 sucks

Again: Watch something else. Nobody’s forcing you to watch something you hate.

I don’t care what the naysayer say: This is brilliant!

WEC is even more optimistic and they rescheduled the season opener in Qatar to be next to the Bahrain race at the end of the season.

only much worse.

Except it’s much better, not much worse. DRS led to guaranteed passes (unless there was a much worse car behind, then to a guaranteed DRS train). The current rules lead to wheel on wheel action.

If you don’t like it, again: Watch something different. Those series exist already, I gave a couple of examples. Making F1 into yet another one of those would make little sense. Just be careful not to follow IndyCar or Super Formula because both have push-to-pass.

Driver skill is far less important this year.

Guaranteed DRS passes required so much special skill. Sure, sure.

Leclerc has the same car, deployment programming, etc. as Hamilton but Leclerc got past Hamilton and hold him off (before the pit stop). It was a great battle between these two and the one who managed the situation better came out ahead. That’s racing.

Ever since the very first F1 race, drivers relied on good cars. That a part of the overall package is engineering by the teams is nothing new. In fact, if you dislike that aspect, maybe F1 isn’t for you.

There are plenty of spec / BoP’ed series around the world. I follow WEC and DTM, for example. Many people rave about the racing in IMSA’s Mazda MX-5 Cup which streams for free on YouTube and IMSA.TV.

Yoyo is such a bullshit term. Better drivers are better at strategicly deploying energy and are more successful at holding off competitors. It’s a huge improvements over processional raced of previous rule cycles.

Wonder what Zak Brown will say about one entity owning two teams now. I assume nothing because he’s a Mercedes customer.

Race direction was definitely a bit lacking

Nah, it was gripping getting to watch a lonely Mercedes instead of Bortoletto’s battle.

I’m not sure Newey had any oversight into Red Bull’s Powertrain division.

Neither had I and I still learned about the broad strokes of the personnel transfer of Honda to Red Bull PT. Pretty big thing to miss when you’re in the top 5 of that company.

IIRC Red Bull were recruiting heavily from Mercedes and other teams PU divisions too, not just bringing in everyone from Honda.

Honda’s UK team was for the hybrid unit, the Mercedes HPP poaches for the ICE. That’s well known. In fact, only a year ago (pretty late) Honda bought back their original UK factory from Red Bull https://www.motorsport-total.com/formel-1/news/fabrik-von-red-bull-uebernommen-honda-legt-wieder-in-europa-los-25030404 (in German, the first source I could find).

Aston Martin team principal Adrian Newey said Friday his group was blindsided by the fact its then-incoming works power unit partner Honda had only retained about 30% of its original world championship-winning staff going into the project.

He was at Red Bull when they bought the entire Honda/HRC UK facilities and workforce. How on earth was he blindsided by this after moving to Aston?

Fully agree.

Last year’s DTM finale was among the most gripping motorsports events ever and they race GT3 cars without any hybrid unit. Not even a second of that race did I think “ooooh, that sound” (especially not on TV because I didn’t attend that race). Great action speaks for itself.

Not if rising fuel costs make the customers go for the alternative and all the ICE cars gather rust.

If I want something, I have to pay for it myself as well. That’s how capitalism works.

why can’t someone do the same here?

Ask the owners of all the courses that don’t host F1 races in Africa.

They didn’t ask Verstappen to sponsor the Dutch GP

Zandvoort secured the funding, then pulled out after Verstappen said he’ll not be in F1 for much longer.

so why does Lewis have to be the one financing or making the case for a race in a region where he has plenty of fans?

Because he said he wants a race to be there.

Stroll’s only hope to not start the GP on P22 is gone.

asking the sport’s bosses “why are we not in Africa?”.

Money. Lewis can afford to sponsor it if he cares about it.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/capcom-makes-the-majority-of-its-sales-on-pc-and-it-expects-the-ratio-to-continue-increasing/

Not sure why it had to be a link to Yahoo Finance (also: Rule 9)

How much this translates into gaming is very much another question.

A good way to find out would be Microsoft releasing their own games for Windows ARM. AFAIK only Solitaire Collection is ported to ARM.